[OT] Win2k3 + DOS = need linux

[Garrett Goebel]

David Holland wrote:
>
> I have a customer that is using a DOS application which uses
> an old version of Foxpro for its database.  I recently set up
> a Windows 2k3 server and a VPN tunnel to their remote site.
> I have them set up to use terminal services from the remote
> to the main and run the DOS app on the server.  I have since
> found out that you can't run a DOS window full screen in a
> terminal services session.  Though you can run it in a window
> but one terminal services session, running a DOS app, eats 98%
> of the CPU and I need to run 2 of these sessions.  So, I know
> bandwidth isn't the problem its Windows server (go figure).
[...]

Why not have the machines at the remote site run VNC clients
(http://www.realvnc.com/) and setup a couple dedicated cheapo Win9X boxes as
VNC servers at the main site. VNC sessions over VPN and cpu utilization
won't matter...

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